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A teacher's union-led proposal to scrap the state's high-stakes MCAS high school graduation exam mandate is inching closer to the 2024 ballot.

Attorney General Andrea Campbell ruled Wednesday that two proposed ballot questions related to the role of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) exam are legally sound.

The Massachusetts attorney general is poised to decide this week if supporters of a petition to end the state's standardized test requirements for graduation will be permitted to collect signatures to force a statewide referendum.

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee say a GOP probe into whether teachers' unions had too much influence on pandemic school closures has come up empty. A spokesperson for the Democrats says that in fact, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consulted a wide range of stakeholders before the American Federation of Teachers was even aware of the guidance to close schools. At a hearing in March, California U.S. ...

A group of education and business organizations and leadership signed off on a letter to the Attorney General opposing the proposed ballot question to end the MCAS graduation requirement, claiming the drafted language is unconstitutional.